But then how does the open source community benefit from it? OK they can
look forward for financers after their product is successful. But till then
how do they manage? Is it a dangling sword on their heads???
Rickard spoke of some business plan. Would you please eloborate on it.
Parikshit
On Mon, 19 Jun 2000 13:23:06 -0700, Freeman Jackson
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>> This is not possible with GPL, which is why we use it: any enhancement
>> of our stuff goes back to the community. Period.
>>
>
>GPL can't police behind Global 500 firewalls. It's a nice idea in theory
but in
>practice there is too much theft of intellectual property to go open source
in
>"all" cases.
Ah, yes, I should have been explicit: any enhancement to code that is
*redistributed* has to be OpenSource. Hence, you can take GPL-code,
modify it, and use it internally for whatever purpose.
But I'm ok with that. We *do* want people to use our code as much as
possible. Why would that be a problem? I don't see this kind of "theft"
as a problem.
>Are you saying that in the Long-Run you have an advantage because jBoss can
>interoperate with other GPL related software? This is a great idea if it's
>true. Can you tell me more?
I don't understand your question. Can you expand on what the possible
edge of jBoss from a GPL-perspective would be. How does it matter
whether the other software is GPL? We integrate with both GPL and
non-GPL software.
>> It is interesting to see these discussions, as the awareness of
>> OpenSource, and what it *really* means and how it works, seems to be not
>> very well-known.
>> That will change.
>
>Ok How?
By having people like me telling you about it, and having good software
like jBoss available as OpenSource, and having businesses using
OpenSource software compete and beat non-OS companies. And having happy
users telling everyone they know how great that OpenSource app server
jBoss is. That's how.
/Rickard
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